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The discovery and conquest of Peru: chronicles of the New World encounter

by Cook, Noble David, Jay I. Kislak Reference Collection (Library of Congress), Cook, Alexandra Parma, Cieza de León, Pedro de

fromLatin America in translation/en traducción/em tradução

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"Dazzled by the sight of the vast treasure of gold and silver being unloaded at Seville’s docks in 1537, a teenaged Pedro de Cieza de León vowed to join the Spanish effort in the New World, become an explorer, and write what would become the earliest historical account of the co…